The Church and the End of the Welfare State

Throughout the post-Vatican II years, the U.S. bishops’ conference has
typically defended the welfare state and not infrequently urged its
expansion. Everyone familiar with the situation knows that this has had
far more to do with the political predilections of certain conference
staff members than with the settled judgment of the American
episcopate—or with a careful application of the principles of Catholic
social doctrine. But things are changing.

A new generation of
bishops is not quite as sure as its predecessors that “social justice”
always equals “government program.” The rise of aggressive secularism
within both state and federal social welfare agencies has also been a
sobering experience, as bishops across the country have found that the
Church’s success in foster care or work with sex-trafficked women
doesn’t count in the eyes of government bureaucrats determined to impose
the LGBT and abortion-on-demand agendas with the funding tools at their
disposal.

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